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Connexions Quotations
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The key issues are those that are close to you, geographically as well as spiritually.
If someone says, ‘I want to change the world. Where do I go?’
I answer: ‘Stay right where you are. Don’t run away. Dig in.’
- Pete Seeger
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
- Abbie Hoffman
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Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine,
they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast.
Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws.
Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for,
they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That’s why I sing these songs.
That’s why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!
- Utah Phillips
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Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
- Sophocles
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Know thy enemy
Know thy enemy:
he does not care what colour you are
provided you work for him
and yet you do!
he does not care how much you earn
provided you earn more for him
and yet you do!
he does not care who lives in the room at the top
provided he owns the building
and yet you strive!
he will let you write against him
provided you do not act against him
and yet you write!
he sings the praises of humanity
but knows machines cost more than men.
Bargain with him, he laughs, and beats you at it;
challenge him, and he kills.
Sooner than lose the things he owns
he will destroy the world.
SMASH CAPITAL NOW!
But as you hasten to be free
And build your commonwealth
Do not forget the enemy
Who lies within yourself.
- Christopher Logue
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